A push by Taiwan's KMT caucus to double a planned cash handout to every citizen has been attacked as legally impossible and deliberately misleading.

• The Cabinet has already budgeted NT$235.7 billion to give every citizen NT$10,000 next year, pending legislative approval.
• KMT legislative caucus leader Fu Kun-chi wants that doubled to NT$20,000, calling it the caucus's top priority for the new session.
• His case rests on tax revenue overshooting forecasts by more than NT$1 trillion this year, with an even bigger surplus expected next year.
• Lawyer Huang Di-ying calls it a scam pitch: the constitution bars the legislature from proposing any increase in government spending, so the promise cannot legally be kept.
• No funding source or detailed math has been offered for the larger figure.

Outlook: The NT$10,000 handout still has to clear the legislature, where the fight over doubling it will likely become a bargaining chip rather than law.